DMANET: DISCRETE MATHEMATICS AND ALGORITHMS: dmanet Digest, Vol 97, Issue 14

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Today's Topics:

1. GECCO 2016 Call for Workshop Papers, Late Breaking Abstracts,
and Hot Off the Press (Per Kristian Lehre)
2. Call for Abstracts: ICMS 2016 Session on Polyhedral Methods
in Geometry and Optimization (Marc Pfetsch)
3. Master's program in combinatorics
(Райгородский Андрей Михайлович)
4. [JMDA16] Discrete Mathematics Days (Final call for papers,
info for registration) (Juanjo Rué)
5. Post-doc positions in Australia - 6, 8 and 10 months
(Pablo Moscato)
6. PhD position at the University of Vienna (Monika Henzinger)

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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 16:09:22 +0000
From: Per Kristian Lehre <PerKristian.Lehre@nottingham.ac.uk>
To: DMANET <dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
Subject: [DMANET] GECCO 2016 Call for Workshop Papers, Late Breaking
Abstracts, and Hot Off the Press
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**** GECCO 2016 CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS ****

2016 ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2016)
July 20-24, 2016, Denver, Colorado, USA
http://gecco-2016.sigevo.org/

** Workshops **

The organizing committee invites the submission of papers to the 17
workshops that will be held at GECCO 2016. The general submission
deadline is April 3, 2016. Interested authors are invited to consult
the individual web pages of the workshops for details about the
submission procedure. Accepted workshop papers will be included in
proceedings companion to be distributed on USB key to all attendees of
the conference and in the ACM Digital Library.

For more information and links to the individual workshop web pages:
http://gecco-2016.sigevo.org/index.html/Workshops

** Important Dates **

* Workshop paper submission deadline (general): April 3, 2016
* Notification of acceptance for workshop papers: April 20, 2016
* Camera ready submission: May 4, 2016
* Advance registration: April 28, 2016

** List of Workshops **

* 6th Workshop on Evolutionary Computation for the Automated Design of
Algorithms (ECADA)
* Algorithms and Data Structures for Evolutionary Computation
* Bi-Objective Black Box Optimization Benchmarking 2016 (BO-BBOB 2016)
* Evolution in Cognition
* Evolutionary Computation in Computational Structural Biology
* Evolutionary Computation Software Systems (EvoSoft)
* GECCO Student Workshop
* Genetic and Evolutionary Computation in Defense, Security, and Risk Management
* Genetic Improvement Workshop
* Industrial Applications of Metaheuristics (IAM)
* International Workshop on Evolutionary Rule-based Machine Learning
(Former International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems)
* Measuring and Promoting Diversity in Evolutionary Algorithms
* Medical Applications of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (MedGEC)
* Model-Based Evolutionary Algorithms (MBEA)
* Visualisation Methods in Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (VizGEC 2016)
* Women@GECCO Workshop
* Workshop on Surrogate-Assisted Evolutionary Optimisation (SAEOpt 2016)

** Late Breaking Abstracts **

Two-page abstracts describing late-breaking developments in the field
of genetic and evolutionary computation are solicited for presentation
at the Late-Breaking Abstracts Workshop of the 2016 Genetic and
Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2016), and for inclusion in
the proceedings companion to be distributed on USB key to all
attendees of the conference and in the ACM Digital Library.
Late-breaking abstracts will be briefly examined for relevance and
minimum standards of acceptability, but will not be peer reviewed in
detail. Authors of accepted late-breaking abstracts will individually
retain copyright (and all other rights) to their late-breaking
abstracts. Accepted late breaking abstracts with no author registered
by the deadline will not appear in the Late-Breaking Abstracts section
on the USB key nor the ACM Digital Library.

For more information:
http://gecco-2016.sigevo.org/index.html/Late-Breaking+Abstracts

** Hot Off the Press **

The HOP (Hot Off the Press) track offers authors of recent papers the
opportunity to present their work to the GECCO community, both by
giving a talk on one of the three main days of the conference and by
having a 2-page abstract appear in the Proceedings Companion, in which
also the workshop papers, late-breaking abstracts, and tutorials
appear. We invite researchers to submit summaries of their own work
recently published in top-tier conferences and journals. Contributions
are selected based on their scientific quality and their relevance to
the GECCO community. Typical contributions include (but are not
limited to) evolutionary computation papers appeared at venues
different from GECCO, papers comparing different heuristics and
optimization methods that appeared at a general heuristics or
optimization venue, papers describing applications of evolutionary
methods that appeared at venues of this application domain, or papers
describing methods with relevance to the GECCO community that appeared
at a venue centered around this methods domain. In any case, it is the
author's responsibility to make clear why this work is relevant for
the GECCO community, and to present the results in a language
accessible to the GECCO community. The deadline for submission is
April 10, 2016.

For more information:
http://gecco-2016.sigevo.org/index.html/Hot+off+the+Press

** Contacts **

Web: http://gecco-2016.sigevo.org
Email: gecco-2016@sigevo.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/gecco2016
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gecco2016/

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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 17:24:40 +0100
From: Marc Pfetsch <pfetsch@mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] Call for Abstracts: ICMS 2016 Session on Polyhedral
Methods in Geometry and Optimization
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Call for Abstracts
ICMS 2016 Session on

POLYHEDRAL METHODS IN GEOMETRY AND OPTIMIZATION

as part of

The 5th International Congress on Mathematical Software
July 11 - 14 2016, Berlin
http://icms2016.zib.de/

AIMS AND SCOPE:

Polyhedra occur in many contexts in geometry and optimization. For
example, convex polyhedra occur in optimization as the feasible regions
of linear programs. Moreover, integer linear programming is the same as
linear programming over the convex hull of the lattice points in a
polyhedron. In algebraic geometry and its applications, piecewise-linear
shapes occur in the guise of polyhedral fans. Examples include secondary
and Gröbner fans. This session wants to bring together people working on
algorithms and software dealing with any of the above.

Specific topics include, but are not restricted to, the following:

- convex hull computations
- (mixed integer) linear programming
- explicit methods for triangulating point configurations
- computations in toric or tropical geometry
- parallelization of polyhedral computations
- polyhedral methods in algebraic statistics
- algorithms exploiting symmetry in any of the above

ORGANIZERS:

Michael Joswig (TU Berlin, joswig@math.tu-berlin.de)
Marc Pfetsch (TU Darmstadt, pfetsch@mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de)

SUBMISSION:

For giving a talk, submit a short abstract (about 200 words in plain
text) to the organizers.

Optionally, speakers may submit an extended abstract (between 4 and 8
pages) for publication in the proceedings

- Short abstract due: March 31, 2016
- Extended abstract due: April 21, 2016
- Congress: July 11-14, 2016

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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 11:14:43 +0300
From: Райгородский Андрей Михайлович
<mraigor@ya.ru>
To: "dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de" <dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
Subject: [DMANET] Master's program in combinatorics
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Master's program in combinatorics in Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, one of the top Russian technical and science universities, has successfully launched International Master's Degree Program "Advanced Combinatorics": https://mipt.ru/education/chairs/dm/master-s-program-in-discrete-mathematics/ The program focuses on modern research topics, including
Combinatorial Geometry, Extremal Combinatorics, Random Graphs and Hypergraphs, Additive Combinatorics. Moreover, the Program includes some important applied topics such as Game Theory and Analysis of Complex Networks. The latter is supported by the opportunity to practice with real-world big data at Yandex, the top Russian internet search engine.

Now, we invite students to apply for admission on the program in 2016-2017 years.

Students will be offered complete coverage of living expenses. Moreover, a stipend of 5000 Russian Rubles will be paid monthly, and additional scholarship will be available. Courses taught by both experienced MIPT professors (V.L. Dol'nikov, A.Ya. Kanel-Belov, R.N. Karasev, A.M. Raigorodskii, D.A. Shabanov, I.D. Shkredov), and invited lecturers, incl. M. Simonovits (Renyi Institute, Budapest), G.O.H. Katona (Renyi Institute, Budapest), J. Pach (EPFL, Lausanne; Renyi Institute, Budapest), B. Sudakov (ETH Zurich), P. Tetali (Georgia Tech, Atlanta). The scientific level of the program is quite high, and the relationships with best PhD schools all around the world (Cambridge, EPFL, MIT, etc.) are established.

Official announcement: https://mipt.ru/education/chairs/dm/master-s-program-in-discrete-mathematics-2016/.

Program coodinator: Prof. Andrei M. Raigorodskii, email: mraigor@yandex.ru

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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 10:24:28 +0100
From: Juanjo Rué <juanjo.rue@gmail.com>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] [JMDA16] Discrete Mathematics Days (Final call for
papers, info for registration)
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======================
Discrete Mathematics Days
Barcelona, 6-8 July 2016

http://llati.upc.edu/JMDA16/
======================
Final call for papers
======================

(apologies for multiple copies)

The Discrete Mathematics Days meeting will be held at UPC Barcelona
6-8 July 2016. This will be the 10th edition of the Jornadas de
Matemática Discreta y Algorítmica (JMDA), the Spanish biannual meeting
on discrete mathematics.

Topics of interest include: Algorithms and Complexity, Combinatorics,
Coding Theory, Cryptography, Discrete and Computational Geometry,
Graph Theory.

Extended abstracts will be published in the Electronic Notes in
Discrete Mathematics (ENDM).

Important dates:

Submission deadline: 20 March, 23:00 (Barcelona time)
Notification of accepted papers: 20 April

Registration: will open the first week of April 2016

Plenary speakers

Simeon Ball (UPC Barcelona)
Daniel Král' (Warwick)
Benjamin Sudakov (ETH Zürich)
Stéphan Thomassé (ENS Lyon)

Program Committee

Camino Balbuena (UPC Barcelona)
Imre Bárány (Alfred Rényi Institute)
Sergi Elizalde (Darmouth College)
Stefan Felsner (TU Berlin)
Delia Garijo (U. Sevilla)
Gabor Lugosi (ICREA and UPF Barcelona)
Carlos Marijuan (U. Valladolid)
Anna de Mier (co-chair) (UPC Barcelona)
Dieter Mitsche (U. Nice)
Jaroslav Nešetřil (Charles U. and ITI, Prague)
Daniel Panario (Carleton U.)
Pedro A. Ramos (U. Alcalá)
Josep Rifà (UAB Barcelona)
Günter Rote (FU Berlin)
Gelasio Salazar (UASL Mexico)
Francisco Santos (U. Cantabria)
Ignasi Sau (CNRS and LIRMM Montpellier)
Oriol Serra (co-chair) (UPC Barcelona)
Gilles Zémor (U. Bordeaux)

Organizing Committee

Victor Diego (UPC Barcelona)
Clemens Huemer (UPC Barcelona)
Marc Noy (UPC Barcelona)
Guillem Perarnau (U. Birmingham)
Lander Ramos (UPC Barcelona)
Juanjo Rué (chair) (UPC Barcelona)

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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 11:17:57 +0000
From: Pablo Moscato <pablo.moscato@newcastle.edu.au>
To: "dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de" <dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
Subject: [DMANET] Post-doc positions in Australia - 6, 8 and 10 months
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Postdoc grants (TG1/TG2) for European-based researchers are available from the
Thelxinoe Project:

https://sites.google.com/site/emthelxinoe/forum/0021cohort-3call-32

Duration: 6, 8 and 10 months.
Call closing: 22/04/2016

Come to work with us in Newcastle, Australia, in areas related to Machine Learning,
Artificial Intelligence, Combinatorial Optimization and Data Science!

More details of our project and application forms can be found here:

https://sites.google.com/site/emthelxinoe/

Definition: Target Groups TG1 and TG2
https://sites.google.com/site/emthelxinoe/selection

Please visit my research profile for a list of activities (as per last publications)
and feel free to suggest possible areas of interest.

Prof. Pablo Moscato
https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/pablo-moscato

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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 15:46:15 +0100
From: Monika Henzinger <monika.henzinger@univie.ac.at>
To: DMANET@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] PhD position at the University of Vienna
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DEPARTMENTOFCOMPUTERSCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA

PHD STUDENT POSITION IN ALGORITHMS

A PhD student position is available in the research group "Theory and

Applications of Algorithms" led by Professor Monika Henzinger. See

http://informatik.univie.ac.at/forschung/forschungsgruppen/theory-and-applications-of-algorithms/

for more information on the research group.

The position is available starting May 1, 2015 (or later) and will be

of 4 years.See

https://univis.univie.ac.at/ausschreibungstellensuche/

(identifier 6502) for more details.

If you are interested, please send your CV, a letter of motivation, and copies

ofthe official transcripts of your Bachelor and Master studies tomonika.henzinger@univie.ac.at
<https://webmail.univie.ac.at/src/compose.php?send_to=monika.henzinger%40univie.ac.at> by March 27,